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pressSIGN 3000th licensee sings software praises

Wednesday 08. January 2014 - Bodoni issued it's 3,000 pressISGN license, in October this year, to Western Trade Printing in Fresno, California. Like so many printing organisations Western Trade Printing has found that pressSIGN has made a powerful impact on their make-ready times and their print quality. They are now telling all their customers.

Bob Gardner, general manager/co-owner at Western Trade Printing, was so impressed with the positve impact that pressSIGN was having on the quality of the print production that he sent out this email to all his customers.
“I am so excited to announce our new fully process controlled approach to printing with pressSIGN! Let me tell you a little about what we have done to achieve this goal and how it is going to affect our business going forward!
Today Western Trade Printing is printing more accurately and more consistently than we ever have. We are utilizing full spectral scanning and pressSIGN software to close the loop between Prepress and Press and we are on the cutting edge of pressroom and prepress process controls. Too good to be true? That is what I thought. Implementing process control with pressSIGN Pro is the BEST INVESTMENT WE HAVE EVER MADE is what I know today!
Our print quality today will rival that of any printer and in most cases at a much lower cost. I will put our print quality up against any printer out there and against any press out there – even brand new presses, and our makeready waste has been reduced by 20%, making our operation greener than ever before!
No one. And I mean NO ONE can provide color more accurate to proof, more consistent from job to job, or more consistent throughout the run than Western Trade Printing! If you are not working with process controlled printers, you should be. And you should also be sure that they are maintaining standards with an ongoing process control program and not just being qualified and going back their old habits. We use pressSIGN to monitor accuracy to standards at all times and it works! And it is cost effective!
…. For those of you who like to get a little techy………
Every job is scanned and recorded throughout print run and scored for accuracy with pressSIGN Pro. We know in real time when there are issues arising that need to be addressed and can proactively control our processes where in the past we have only had the tools to be reactive and could only effectively monitor solid densities (one small part of the process of printing). Now, using pressSIGN Pro we are monitoring Gray Balance, Ink Trapping, Dot Gain (Tonal value), Solid Densities and even paper consistency.
You can count on Western to provide the best printing at the best value around!
This is a sample of the instant pressSIGN report of a press sheet. This tells us that everything is acceptable and you may notice that there are a couple areas that are showing red and that our Dot Gains are within tolerance but just beginning to drift to the outside edges of tolerance. With pressSIGN we can now address these areas BEFORE they become a problem.”